Category: Mindletters

Coming back home after a longer journey is always a challenge. You were making plans, seeing new places, people, and ways to live, adapting to them, and learning to enjoy them. Now, you’re back where everything is familiar again. Like going away in the first place, it can be disorienting. And it’s because you’re overwhelmed… Continue reading The hidden, but precious side of coming home after a journey

My adaptor was gone. All of a sudden my world shrank: “How will I write my daily emails as well as other content and be able to research and work?” “Will I be able to get a new one? How quick?” I am traveling through Mexico, right now, only having my phone, my laptop, and… Continue reading A simple stoic technique to be happier with what you have

I was standing at the edge of the open door of a flying plane, strapped to someone behind who would push me out within a few seconds. I was staring down 4 km of potential free fall. My mind was blank, yet all of this felt familiar already. All due to the power of visualization.… Continue reading How to make free falling feel familiar

As I’m writing this, I’ve been fasting for 40+ hours. I could tell you it feels horrible, but it doesn’t. I could tell you it transformed my life, but it didn’t. It’s still been a fascinating experience. deepening calmness, increasing serenity. It made it easier to connect with the present moment, despite or because of… Continue reading Mindletter 10: Try Fasting

Doing a mind-drowning job you despise sounds like living an uncomfortable life, doesn’t it? You see everyone including me praising a life of challenges and living uncomfortably. Then isn’t this exactly what to do? Go to a low-paying job, work all day, and repeat it every day until you’re old enough to retire. When all… Continue reading Mindletter 9: The difference between chasing your dreams and living comfortably.

One of the guru tips for growing on X is the following: Build in public. The idea is to build your audience and presence by sharing your progress. People, who are behind you on this journey, will follow you because it helps them. Sharing your progress publicly helps you stay committed to your plan. When… Continue reading Mindletter 8: Share your progress

When you observe your own thoughts for more than 10 minutes, you’ll likely find out that many of them are quite pessimistic. There can be: The human mind has been dealing with problems for thousands of years. It’s so good at finding problems, it even anticipates them. In other words, it creates them. Because knowing… Continue reading Mindletter 7: Why so pessimistic?

Happiness and mindfulness go hand in hand. In fact, they might just be synonyms. Let me explain. ​ When are you unhappy? It’s when you don’t want what will happen to you: . something is taken away from you that you like. . something is brought to you that you don’t want. (In fact, those… Continue reading Mindletter 6: Mindfulness and Happiness

Our minds often tell us to do more, act more, produce more, work more, strive more. But in reality, everything is taken care of by itself. The sun rises on its own. Your lungs breathe in and out. The food is there in the supermarket. You get the picture. It’s not the tendency of the… Continue reading Mindletter 5: Do Nothing

There has been a long break in my newsletter. But beginning from now, expect 2-3 issues a week. The reason for this is the following: In the last month, I have been to Iceland, Spain, and Italy. Barely having enough time to write short-form content for my Twitter Account. Writing comments and answering messages. Doing… Continue reading Mindletter 4: Go with the flow